Recapturing Sophocles' Antigone

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

AvWilliam Blake Tyrrell,Larry J. Bennett

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In this book, Wm. Blake Tyrrell and Larry J. Bennett examine Sophocles' Antigone in the context of its setting in fifth-century Athens. The authors attempt to create an interpretive environment that is true to the issues and interests of fifth-century Athenians, as opposed to those of modern scholars and philosophers. As they contextualize the play in the dynamics of ancient Athens, the authors discuss the text of the Antigone in light of recent developments in the study of Greek antiquity and tragedy, and they turn to modern Greek rituals of lamentation for suggestive analogies. The result is a compelling book which opens new insights to the text, challenges the validity of old problems, and eases difficulties in its interpretation.

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Utgivningsdatum1998-08-13
Mått154 x 230 x 15 mm
Vikt290 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieGreek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
Antal sidor192
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9780847692170

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Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 PrefaceChapter 3 Introduction: Insights, Contexts, MethodsChapter 4 Ismene's Choice: Prologue (1-99)Chapter 5 The Dust: Parodos and the First Episode (100-331)Chapter 6 Antigone, Teras: First Stasimon and Second Episode (332-581)Chapter 7 Haemon, Son and Citizen: Second Stasimon and Third Episode (582-780)Chapter 8 Antigone, Bride of Hades: Third Stasimon and Fourth Episode (781-943)Chapter 9 The Prophet Speaks: Fourth Stasimon and Fifth Episode (994-1114)Chapter 10 Creon's Defeat: Fifth Stasimon and Exodos (1115-1352)Chapter 11 BibliographyChapter 12 Index

This book is a contribution to one of the core projects of classical scholarship in recent years: highlighting the importnace of social and political context in the interpretation of ancient works. Tyrrell and Bennett are probably best known for their suggestions about links between Antigone and the Athenian public funerals and funeral orations. In this book they expand on those suggestions, drawing also on particular historical events such as the Samian war, and on other literary texts, such as Iliad, to establish how Antogone's, Creon's, and other characters' attitudes to the burial might have been percieved.